Nathan Radke

A lot of them have sort of loose joints in their arms and their necks, which means if you jostle them a little bit or if you're carrying them funny, it almost looks like they move on their own.

Do you remember those dolls that when you sat them up, their eyeballs would open?

Yeah, I mean, it was terrifying.

And, of course, most frightening of all was Betsy Wetsy.

Oh, I don't know of Betsy Wetsy.

Betsy Wetsy was a 1950s doll that you could feed liquid to, and then she would urinate.

No, absolutely, which is why in pop culture, there's a long history of using dolls in this way.

There was a Twilight Zone episode in the 60s.

There was obviously the Chucky series.

Poltergeist had some haunted dolls.

And in the Conjuring movie franchise, we have this character that's this terrifying sort of ceramic-faced Victorian doll named Annabelle.

Well, I mean, he's discovered in his hotel room on this tour.

And the thing about this tour is, even before Dan dies, there's all sorts of weird rumors that are circulating.

Because this doll, this Annabelle doll, which is actually just a Raggedy Ann doll.

In the movies, it's, you know, this weird, creepy looking thing.

But in real life, it's just a normal Raggedy Ann.

And

It's been kept in this sort of museum, this haunted museum for years, but they took it out to do this tour.

Despite the fact that there's a great big sign on the case that says, warning, positively do not touch.

And one of the stops on the tour was New Orleans.